For those of you who've spent time
listening to/watching my bi-weekly virtual concert series, this does
not come as a surprise: an album compiling the highlights (from my
point of view) of this series in 2009 has been released as "The MoinSound Studio
Sessions" (or MSSS for short).

But - and this explanation especially for those who haven't been
"there" - what does it contain?
MSSS can be seen as a combination of my trombone-and-vocals approach as
presented on my 2008 World Tour and on the Wie groß ist die Luft ?
album, and the earlier, highly multi-instrumentalist work e.g. on Weird Specialist.

The sessions, and those who have been following them dutifully (thanks
again!) may second that, were as much a basis for experiments as they
were a proper concert series - and with that comes the challenge to
compile a somewhat coherent album from it - yet, with nearly ten hours
of recorded music available, this can (and did) work.

Musically, the usual freely-improvised approach which I've been
following since 2000 is combined with heavy use of what people call
"advanced looping techniques", making use especially of those clever
EDP techniques of odd multiplys and SusOverdub, made even more complex
by the application of Mobius'
multiple tracks. The heavily effected trombone and vocal noises find
companions in melodica, soprano saxophone, Eighties' synths, recorder,
acoustic and electric guitar and bass guitar and bits of noise
electronics.

On eight proper tracks, divided evenly by three short intermezzos, the
album goes from lush synth melodies ("Chronologically Gifted") to
EDPified distorted guitar ("Leather Allergy"), from odd meters
("Sequencing Bad Mojo") to avantgarde-dub-reggae (with bass noises and
screaming filtered delays on "Life in High-Dimensional Spaces") and all
the way in between.

(And while you're there, you may as well take a look at my reorganized
website)

Any feedback is welcome!

With all the best wishes for the coming year,

Rainer

ps: People who've been following my last releases will find that,
unlike the last three albums, this one does not appear on Jamendo,
rather on Bandcamp. Why is that, you ask? Unfortunately, Jamendo, which
is a hosting service with listener and artist community for CC-licensed
music, has gone the way of everything CC/free information/other forms
of modern information managment in the French- or German-speaking
world. While the idea of this and similar projects (wikipedia,
archive.org,...) is to grant a free access to information both for
authors and consumers, countries and nationalities with a tendency to
certain stalinist/faschist practices are obviously not a place for this
to work. The most stunning example is the German version of Wikipedia,
which has been for some time firmly in the grasp of persons who
oviously believe that the world of CC and free information is a proper
playground for Blockwarts and Reichsführer, out of their regular former
jobs at least since the demise of the GDR. That means that (both in the
case of German-language wikipedia and, in a worse form on
Luxembourg-based jamendo) some personae hold a firm grip on which
information they deem worthy and which one they do not (based on
non-transparent rules of their own making). To avoid any confusion -
it's not that anyone at Jamendo has actually declined my work, but
keeping an album in the release queue for more than ten days without
result while I can sign up, upload and start streaming in less than 30
minutes on Bandcamp clearly made Jamendo a no-go-area for me.